Cisse’s bad break impairs Liverpool

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THERE IS A PHOTOGRAPH taken on Saturday evening that captures Djibril Cisse immediately before the dreadful moment he realises he has broken his leg. His studs are caught in the turf, his lower leg is in the process of being bent to a sickening degree but the pain has not yet hit him. Within a split-second, there was a stomach-turning crack and Liverpool’s £14 million record signing was writhing in agony on the Ewood Park turf, his leg broken in two places, his career in the balance.

In such freeze-frame moments can lives be changed. A footballer’s career is short